In a new behind-the-scenes video from the filming of Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning, viewers can watch Tom Cruise perform a death-defying stunt while jumping out of a helicopter with a POV camera rig attached. [Read More]

A group of Galapagos Whaler sharks attacked a camera in the Coral Sea, Australia, this week, with the incident captured on an underwater 360 camera. [Read More]

Swiss outdoor brand Mammut is hosting a global photo contest that includes a companion scavenger hunt designed for nature enthusiasts. [Read More]

SSDs continue to get faster, but the bottleneck for performance usually comes down to connectivity. It doesn’t matter how fast your drive can write if the cable can’t push data through to match. With Thunderbolt 5, though, that throughput has been jacked up, and OWC’s new Envoy Ultra SSD shows that for those who need pure speed, there is an option. [Read More]

The Disability Collection, an initiative led by Getty Images in partnership with Verizon Media and the National Disability Leadership Alliance announced that a total of $60,000 in grants has been awarded to two photographers and a cinematographer championing disability representation. [Read More]

Chinese lens maker Blazar’s latest anamorphic lens series is highly unusual. The Blazar Beetle 1.33x anamorphic lenses for full-frame cameras feature a rotatable design, supporting distinct horizontal and vertical anamorphic shooting and expanded cropping possibilities. [Read More]

Clive has been taking photos of people in London for about 65 years. During that time, he has met and photographed many people from all walks of life. A new documentary film by Chocolate Films, as part of the 1000 Londoners series, looks at Clive’s career and how his photos paint a detailed portrait of a city and its people changing over the decades. [Read More]

A speeding duck has set off a traffic camera in the Swiss town of Köniz, mirroring a near-identical incident seven years earlier. [Read More]

Tom Cruise and the cast of Mission: Impossible defied a long-standing rule at Cannes Film Festival last night by taking selfies on the red carpet — a form of photography that has been banned for the past seven years. [Read More]

PetaPixel has been regularly updating its Sample Galleries since it added them as a Membership perk earlier this year. It now includes nine of the latest cameras and eight of the latest lenses, including the new Panasonic Lumix S1 II and S1 IIE that were announced earlier this week. [Read More]